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Ebooks from leading university presses, covering all academic subjects.
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Subject Areas: General
Offering 165,000+ e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others.
Please note, this database searches a collection of 165,442 ebooks allowing unlimited, simultaneous use as well as a collection of 15,460 ebooks that allow single user access (only). Check the "Concurrent User Level" field in the database record to verify access.
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Subject Areas: General
EBSCO eBook Collection is an ebook library covering many academic subjects.
This collection includes thousands of titles purchased by OhioLINK, plus thousands of public-domain ebooks. Users can preview an ebook online, peruse a page, read each page in depth, jump to specific chapters or pages, or use links in the Table of Content or Index to go directly to specific chapters of interest. Every word in every book is searchable.
The EBSCO eBook Collection provides online access to one user at a time. Please use another eBook Collection, such as the EBSCO eBook Academic Collection, when assigning materials for class use.
An archival collection of primary resources, covering the era of vaudeville and silent movies through 2000.
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Subject Areas: History, Cinema, Sociology
An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.
Format: Full Text Articles Dates of Coverage: 1894-2000 Database Producer: ProQuest
Covers the literature about television and film writing.
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Subject Areas: Cinema, Communication, Mass Media
Film & Television Literature Index covers the literature about television and film writing. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications. FTLI has been designed for use by a diverse audience that includes film scholars, college students, and general viewers. Subject coverage includes film & television theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, technical aspects, and reviews.
Format: Index to Journal Articles Database Producer: EBSCO Publishing.
Performing Arts content from scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, 1864 to present . Keywords: theater, dance, cinema, music, IIPA.
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Subject Areas: Theatre, Dance, Music, Cinema
The Performing Arts Database, formerly known as the International Index to the Performing Arts, draws its content from scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals.
Most full text records within this resource contain an abstract and selected records contain corresponding full text of the original article.
Format: Index to Journal Articles Dates of Coverage: 1864 to present Update Schedule: Monthly Database Producer: ProQuest
Comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.
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Subject Areas: All Subjects
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. This scholarly collection offers unmatched full text coverage of information in many areas of academic study including: animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion & theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields.
Format: Full Text, Index and Abstracts
Dates of Coverage: 1887 - Present
Update Schedule: Daily
Database Producer: EBSCO
MLA International Bibliography is an index to books and articles published on modern languages, literature, folklore, and linguistics.
Coverage includes literature from all over the world.
- Folklore is represented by folk literature, music, art, rituals, and belief systems.
- Linguistics and language materials range from history and theory of linguistics, comparative linguistics, semantics, stylistics, and syntax to translation.
- Other topics include literary theory and criticism, dramatic arts (film, radio, television, theater), and history of printing and publishing.
The MLA Directory of Periodicals and the Association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography are also included.
Format: Index to Journal Articles
Dates of Coverage: 1926-Present
Update Schedule: Regularly
Database Producer: Modern Language Association. Distributed by EBSCO Publishing.
Digital library containing over 10 million academic, full text online resources.
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The JSTOR Archive is a digital collection of eBooks and academic journals, which extend back to the first volume published. This digital library is particularly strong in the humanities, but covers all subject areas. The database itself supports data and text mining as well. For additional information, visit the JSTOR Research Guides.
Format: Full Text Dates of Coverage: Vary by title Update Schedule: Annual Database Distributor: JSTOR
Digital humanities and social sciences books and journals, from university presses and scholarly societies.
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Subject Areas: General
Project MUSE is an online archive of digital humanities and social sciences content; since 1995, its electronic journal collections have supported a wide array of research needs at academic, public, special, and school libraries worldwide. Project MUSE contains Open Access (OA) content. To see the title list of OA books and journals, click here.
Format: Full Text Journals and eBooks
Database Producer: Johns Hopkins University Press
Please Note: Project MUSE provides access to alumni as well as current members of the Denison community.
Presents historical events over time through newsreels, archival footage, and documentaries.
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American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion.
The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Subject: American history
Format: Archival Resources
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press
Full-length educational videos covering a wide variety of subjects.
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Subject Areas: General
Educational Films & Documentaries is part of the OhioLink Digital Resource Center (DRC). It contains full-length educational videos covering a wide variety of subjects. The collection currently includes videos from two distributors, Ambrose Video and Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Format: Digital Media
Database Producer: Ambrose Video Publishing and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
Visual compendium of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video.
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Subject Areas: History; Cinema; Sociology and Anthropology; Theatre.
Ethnographic Video is a comprehensive online resource of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. Includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures. Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.
Format: Full Text; Archival Resources
Database Producer: Alexander Street Press
Kanopy is an online, streaming video service, which provides access to over 26,000 films each year. Kanopy includes titles from PBS, BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation and more.
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Subjects: All
Kanopy is a streaming video service that works like Netflix for educational institutions. Every year, Kanopy offers access to over 26,000 films and documentaries for educational and classroom use. Films may be browsed by subject or searched by title.
Format: Streaming Media
Update Schedule: Annually
Database Distributor: Kanopy
Online collection of films from the communist world revealing war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens.
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Subject Areas: Cinema, Political Science
Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), Socialism on Film documents the communist world, from the Russian Revolution to the end of the Cold War. This unique collection of documentary films, features and newsreels reveals all aspects of life behind the Iron Curtain, as seen by filmmakers from the USSR, Vietnam, Cuba, China, East Germany, Eastern Europe and more.
Providing a counterpoint to Western perceptions of communist states and their actions, the films illuminate how socialist countries saw themselves and the world around them during the major political and social events of the twentieth century. The footage was originally sourced from communist states, then versioned into English language for private distribution in Britain and the West.
This is the largest film collection of its kind to survive in Western Europe. The films have been conserved, digitized from the original 16mm and 35mm reels, and are fully transcribed and searchable.
This resource is made up of three modules:
Module I: Wars & Revolutions
Module II: Newsreels & Cinemagazines
Module III: Culture & Society
Format: Full Text, Streaming Media
Dates of Coverage: Early 20th century to the 1980s
Update Schedule:
Database Distributor: Adam Matthew Digital
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